To begin, preheat your oven to 375 degrees.

In your mixing bowl, combine the all-purpose flour, brown sugar, baking soda, fine sea salt, and rolled oats. Give these a stir to combine. Add in the butter. Mix this until it forms a crumbly mixture. Set it aside for a moment.

Grease a 9×9 baking dish. Line it with parchment paper, leaving the sides longer so that you can remove the bars from the pan by lifting them out by the paper. Grease the paper as well.

Take have of your oat mixture and firmly press it into the bottom of your pan.

Bake this for 10 minutes.

Meanwhile, finely chop the pecans. Stir the chopped pecans into the remaining oat mixture.

When it has finished baking, immediately pour the caramel sweetened condensed milk all over the hot crust.

Sprinkle the remaining oat mixture over the top.

Sprinkle the chocolate chips all over the top. Gently pat the chips and topping into the filling, smoothing out the top as best you can.

Bake for an additional 20 minutes or until just golden on top.

Allow this beauty to cool completely to room temperature before cutting into bars.

Enjoy!